Baby black bear’s rescue is just right
By Leigh Hornbeck
Author's family intervenes to help orphaned cub in Minerva
Leigh Hornbeck
Leigh Hornbeck grew up in the Adirondacks in Essex County. She is an aspiring 46er, a two-time finisher of the Adirondack Canoe Classic and the co-owner of Hornbeck Boats. Leigh and her husband, Josh, live in Saratoga County with their two children.
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Remembering Betsy Folwell
By Leigh Hornbeck
A heartfelt tribute to Betsy Folwell, a gifted Adirondack writer and mentor
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In Lake Placid, short-term rental owners feel ‘vilified’
By Leigh Hornbeck
Tensions grow as community weighs options on updating STR regulations
90 miles in a canoe, a lifetime in boats
By Leigh Hornbeck
First-time racer Leigh Hornbeck shares her thoughts on the three-day Adirondack Canoe Classic boat race.
Before “forever wild”
By Leigh Hornbeck
Putnam photo collection from 1800s shows frontier lives and clear-cut forests
For love of wild country
By Leigh Hornbeck
After two decades of advocating for the park, Diane Fish prepares to retire.
Portrait of a community
By Leigh Hornbeck
North Creek’s decade-long art project reflects shared vision
Grandkids on the Trail
By Leigh Hornbeck
Second edition hiking volume reaches new generations, routes By Leigh Hornbeck Rose Rivezzi and David Trithart were the parents of two young boys when they wrote the first edition of their “Kids on the Trail!” guidebook for hiking with children in the Adirondacks. This summer, they celebrated the arrival of the second edition with their…
Great Sacandaga markers pay tribute to what was lost
By Leigh Hornbeck
Fifteen new blue and yellow historical markers will soon serve as reminders of the places lost to the Great Sacandaga Lake when the reservoir was created in 1930.
How the Adirondacks helped shape a justice
By Leigh Hornbeck
She was raised in Brooklyn and went to camp every summer from 1937 to 1951—from the time she was 4 until she was 18.